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Senior DevOps Engineer

Build and operate developer platform systems for continuous integration, Kubernetes-based ephemeral environments, automated testing, and internal tooling. The role requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, three years of software engineering experience, and experience operating production software or infrastructure.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Build and improve services, infrastructure, and developer tooling for continuous integration, ephemeral environments, and automated testing.
  • Develop scalable Kubernetes- and AWS-based capabilities for reliable, self-service production-like environments.
  • Build shared infrastructure for test execution, orchestration, environment setup, and results.
  • Improve platform reliability, performance, observability, and cost efficiency through durable software and infrastructure improvements.
  • Replace manual or fragmented workflows with reusable APIs, automation, and platform capabilities.
  • Use AI throughout software development and identify AI-enabled workflows that improve developer productivity.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a related field, or equivalent.
  • 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Experience developing production software with one or more general-purpose programming languages.
  • Experience designing, building, testing, and operating production software or infrastructure.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, continuous integration systems, developer tooling, or backend services.
  • Ability to independently deliver well-scoped projects from technical design through production operation.
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools across multiple stages of the software engineering lifecycle.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Kubernetes control-plane engineering, AWS, containers, or infrastructure as code experience.
  • Knowledge of developer tooling, continuous integration systems, internal developer platforms, or shared test infrastructure.
  • Experience with ephemeral or production-like development and testing environments.
  • Experience building APIs, services, command-line tools, test orchestration, or automation used by other engineers.
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools or building AI-enabled developer workflows and automation.

Compensation

  • United States anticipated base salary: $142,000–$196,600 USD.
  • Canada anticipated base salary: $136,000–$165,000 CAD.
  • Target bonuses, equity compensation, and benefits are also provided.

Skills

Kubernetes, AWS, Containers, Infrastructure As Code, Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, Developer Tooling, Backend Services, APIs, Command-Line Tools, Test Automation, Observability, Artificial Intelligence

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